Friday, 1 April 2016

Reddit's removal of ‘warrant canary’ could hint at US demand for its user data

CloudFlare aims to block fewer legitimate Tor users

IT services firm creates 500 jobs in Welsh local authority

IT services firm CGI creates 500 jobs in south Wales following a £3.2m investment from the Welsh government

Brits feel lack of digital skills holds firms back

Almost half of employers think UK firms would be more productive if there was a higher level of digital skills

Intel expands Xeon processor family to help enterprises build software-defined clouds

Chip manufacturer Intel unveils products and customer use cases in support of its software-defined infrastructure push

Intel offers enterprises helping hand in making private clouds work for them

Chip manufacturer Intel sets out plans to help the enterprise deploy tens of thousands of cloud environments

Download U.S. Census data on IT workers

Would you like to analyze Census data about IT workers yourself? Download this zipped file of data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) 2010-2014 PUMS (Public Use Microdata Samples) data.

The original Census Bureau file used by Computerworld in our story about gender in IT included more than 15 million records. The zip file available for download is a subset of those: a CSV file with 138,172 records from all respondents who reported a job in one of the following professions: Computer & IS Managers, Comp & IS Research, Computer Systems Analysts, Infosecurity Analysts, Programmers, Software Developers, Web Developers, Tech Support, Database Administrators, Network & System Administrators, Network Architects and Computer Other.

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